Word: cops
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Many, many Americans are woefully out of shape. However, it's a cop-out to blame McDonalds or the American automobile industry for our epidemic of obesity. The primary blame rests squarely upon those who lack the initiative to establish a reasonable personal-fitness program and who lack the discipline to monitor the quantity and quality of their food intake. The obese have few to blame for their condition but themselves...
...Walsh), who has career and marital problems of his own, is difficult. Sully rents a room from a tolerant, spirited old lady (the late Jessica Tandy) who is beginning to fail physically. His best friend (Pruitt Taylor Vince) is not quite bright and is being harassed by the town cop. Oh, yes, and he and Roebuck's wife (Melanie Griffith) are inappropriately, frustratingly attracted to each other...
...Sully down -- not for long, anyway. He may occasionally rage at his narrowing circumstances, but mostly he confronts them with a cheeky joke. Or a boyish prank: he and Roebuck keep stealing a snowblower back and forth. Or some comically self-destructive behavior -- he finally punches out that cop and lands briefly in jail -- that doesn't do him as much harm as it would if this were real life instead of a movie determined to be cheerful at any cost...
...three years as a waste of taxpayer money. Fleiss has heard it all. But last week it was her turn to do a double take when a uniformed policewoman entered the shop to buy a sweatshirt. "Listen, I think it's terrible what they're doing to you," the cop said. "I just wanted to tell...
Looking out of the window, this seems true. Two teens with elaborate hairdos and gum-cracking grins joke in Spanish with a Black man. An Asian man and woman disappear into Ryles' Jazz Bar. A lesbian couple chats with the local cop...